On 04/28/2018 09:44 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:36 AM Linus Torvalds < > torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> They need to be run as root. > Side note: don't get me wrong. If the MPX stuff isn't supported by gcc, > then there is little point in us supporting it in the kernel either.
The loss of the GCC support is definitely a bummer. There are no objections from me against removing it from future kernels. I think it will be pretty straightforward, just leaving the prctl() numbers as placeholders.
